infrastructure and the regions. Most of the topics deal with the long-term integration process in Europe, with a particular focus on …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, the productivity of its R&D and the existence of knowledge spillovers across regional boundaries. Here we develop a … model which, emphasizing "the demand pull" as a key exogenous determinant of long-run innovation across regions, allows us …

, regional, and national scale. In order to effect and sustain a positive change, innovation and knowledge networks need to be …